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Helping hands
For nearly 200 years a small community in Aveiro in Portugal has created handmade porcelain that interprets the nation’s heritage.
Baltic revival
A creative buzz and outward-looking development projects are adding verve to the waterside district of Kalamaja.
Hunt for a home
Built as a hunting lodge in the 1930s and seized by the SS during the war, Villa St Martin in Alsace has a colourful history. It is now an idyllic family home.
On the make
Warsaw-based design studio Thisispaper was born out of an idea to promote lasting and well-crafted design in Poland. Monocle meets the team.
Carrying the torch
Inspired by workwear and French craft expertise, L/Uniform is a new luggage start-up from Jeanne Signoles. The range of utilitarian bags aims to prove that the practical can also be beautiful.
Down to a fine art
London gallery owner Stephen Friedman credits his success to his marketing background and a good eye. Here he reveals the secrets to running one of the capital's most respected and commercially successful art ventures.
Bare essentials
Bikini Berlin is a newly redesigned complex mixing retail, culture and creative thinking about the public space. Once a fading relic of the Cold War, intelligent ideas from its new tenants are helping to…
Boutique Norway
Monocle heads to Norway’s third largest city, Stavanger, to discover how this boom town’s oil reserves are spurring on those entrepreneurs looking to add variety and quality to this once-understated retail scene.
Just the job
An inspiring business can grow from the simple thought of wanting to do something well. Learn a few tricks from 10 entrepreneurs who are doing it differently around the world.
